End the practice of "taxing" the poor and minority families of prisoners.
Terminate private for-profit prisons. When the state deprives someone of their liberty it is the state's responsibility to care for them, not to put inmates into a for-profit system.
Terminate any system to collect fees from depositing funds from families to prisoner's accounts. 100% of the money sent by a family must be deposited for their loved ones. Those families did not intend to grant any gift to the corrections department. It is nothing less than extortion to force a poor family to pay a fee to send money to a loved one in prison or jail.
End profits on prison telephone calls to home. Communication with family is a necessary component of rehabilitation that should be the primary goal of the justice system, and not a profit center that limits rehabilitation based on a free world families financial position.
Prohibit any jurisdiction in the State of Florida from charging a prisoner for room and board. You lock someone up, taking care of them is a public responsibility.
Establish commissary prices not to exceed a 1.5% profit over actual wholesale cost of goods sold to prisoners.
Florida CURE
www.flcure.org
That's why I signed a petition to The Florida State House,
The Florida
State Senate, and Governor Rick Scott.
Will you sign this
petition? Click
here:
http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/end-prison-profits-on?source=s.icn.em.mt&r_by=6815760
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